PRINCELY MONKS AND NUNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 13

PRINCELY MONKS AND NUNS.

The news-that a son of Prince Hobenlohe, ex-Chancellor of the German Empire, having taken orders as a priest, has beea nominated rector of a parish in Transylvania, inspires the "Observatore Eornano"to draw up a list of the members of princely or reigning families who have-renounced the world in order to , follow a religious vocation. Princess Elizabeth, wife of Prince Albert of Belgium, has an aunt who is in the Carmelite order, the Dowager-Duchess Adelaide of Braganza, who, after being expelled from France with her sisters -In reiigion7 is now fn a "convent "in the Isle of Wight. In tfie same convent is one oT her nieces," daughter "of that Prince Charles of Lowensteiri who last year, although a septuagenarian, asked for admission to" the Order of St. Dominic. -Prince Maximilian, a brother of the present King of Saxony, as is well known, after having exercised his apostolate in the East End of London, is now teaching canon law and liturgy to young clerics in the University cf Friburg. Prince Ferdinand -~ot— -Croy,- who -was a -domestic - -prelate - to tea - -XIII., -- is now the parish—priest of- -Mores. Frince Charles" of Hoh'enldhe-X>angen-burg is a Doctor" of " Theology "and Canou of Olmiitz; Prince Philip of Hdhea-lohe-Schillingsfnrst wears the habit of' St. Benedict, and Prince George of Liechtenstein, a nTonk of the same order, is known in religion as Father Ildephonso; Henrietta of Liechenstein- lives in -the Benedictine Convent of St. Gabriel at Smichoy, near Prague, as Mother Adelguhdis. To the foregoing may be added Count Arnold of Lippe, canon of the Cathedral of St. Stephen. Vienna; Princess Maria of Schwartz zehberg and two Countesses of Salms, Bene-> dicfine nuns; and three daughters of Princess Marie Louise of Isenberg, Archduchess of Austria, who belong to the congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph.